A Proposed Diagnostic and Treatment Algorithm for the Management of Lumbar Discogenic Pain by Lorio MP, Beall DP, Myers TJ, Naidu RK, McRoberts WP, Davis TT, Gage EG, Calodney AK, Verrills P, De Palma MJ, Amirdelfan K, Block JE

“…The successful implementation of this algorithm involves an important interplay between advanced practice providers, interventional pain physicians and spine surgeons.Keywords: discogenic pain, disc degeneration, intradiscal, minimally-invasive, algorithm…”
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Evaluation of a Learning Collaborative to Implement Postgraduate Nurse Practitioner (NP) and/or Physician Associate (PA) Residency or Fellowship Programs in a Community Health Cent... by Meaghan Angers, Manjari Mishra, Amanda Schiessl, Margaret Flinter, Nicole Seagriff, Kerry Bamrick, Charise Corsino, May Oo

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Upper Extremity Splint ApplicationMaster's MethodMaster's MethodMaster's MethodMaster's MethodMaster's MethodMaster's MethodMaster's Method by Jonathan D. Grabau, MD, Hannah T. Hoopes, MD, Christine Ho, MD

“…This chapter and its accompanying media should ideally serve as a primer for medical trainees, including orthopaedic residents, fellows, advanced practice providers, and other medical professionals learning to treat pediatric patients in clinical and emergency department settings. …”
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Cardiac Arrest: An Adult eCPR Simulation Case by Dominique Gelmann, James Giordano, John Gaillard, Casey Bryant

“…Participants (consisting of emergency medicine and critical care resident and attending physicians, critical care fellows, advanced practice providers, nurses, pharmacists, and respiratory therapists) were instructed to respond to the simulation by recognizing the indication for eCPR and performing ultrasound-guided percutaneous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) cannulation to facilitate patient transfer to the cardiac catheterization lab. …”
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Economic impact of reduced postoperative visits after inflatable penile prosthesis implantation by Bradley Gill, Young Eun Shin, Kathryn Durand, Andrew Sun, Paurush Babbar, Sirikan Rojanasarot

“…Physician work time and reimbursement were conservatively estimated using the 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and an alternative scenario where Advanced Practice Providers conducted IPP teaching was also modeled. …”

Patient Satisfaction with a Novel Tele-Cystoscopy Model: Expanding Access to Bladder Cancer Surveillance for Rural Patients by Aisha O. Kazeem, William Hasken, Terran Sims, Stephen H. Culp, Tracey L. Krupski, Jennifer M. Lobo

“…Background: Tele-cystoscopy involves trained advanced practice providers performing cystoscopy with real-time interpretation by an urologist. …”
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Study protocol testing feasibility of the Comfort Measures Only Time out (CMOT) to reduce distress during palliative withdrawal of mechanical ventilation by Abigail G. Fischer, Margaret L. Campbell, Margaret M. Hayes, Richard M. Schwartzstein, Douglas B. White, Susan L. Mitchell, Corey R. Fehnel

“…Nurses, physicians, advanced practice providers, and respiratory therapists will convene within an hour before withdrawal of mechanical ventilation to complete the checklist. …”
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A Multidisciplinary Standardized Patient Simulation for Using Trauma-Informed Care for Pregnant Patients by Danielle Nichole Olson, Anna Brandt, Sarah Greywitt, Kelly S. Gibson

“…Results Simulation participants included obstetrics and gynecology students and residents, nurses, advanced practice providers, generalist attendings, and maternal fetal medicine fellows and attendings. …”
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Camaraderie: Profession-Specific Facilitated Small Groups to Improve Well-Being in Health Care by Megan Furnari, MD, Sean P.M. Rice, PhD, Alexis C. Jaggers, BA, Abigail Lenhart, MD, Marie V. Soller, MD

“…Objective: To assess the impact of profession-specific small groups for physicians, nurses, advanced practice providers, and managers led by trained peer facilitators with the intention to improve aspects of well-being. …”
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Development and implementation of paging and escalation guidelines to improve interprofessional communication on surgical units by Michael A Kochis, Lynze R Franko, Kathleen Swierzewski, Alison Parmar, Suzanne Algeri, Rajshri M Gartland

“…Our departmental quality committee identified numerous safety events resulting from discordant expectations between surgical floor nurses and surgical residents or advanced practice providers (APPs) who serve as responding clinicians (RCs), and from reluctance to escalate clinical concerns. …”
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Decision‐making for pediatric cervical spine imaging after blunt trauma: Investigating team dynamics in the emergency department by Megan E. Gregory, Annie Truelove, Fahd Ahmad, Daniel Corwin, Leah Tzimenatos, Scott J. Oglesbee, Martin J. Herman, Julie C. Leonard

“…Results Forty‐eight physicians, advanced practice providers, and nurses from 21 hospitals (inclusive of three US regions, trauma levels I–III, and serving towns/cities of various population sizes) were interviewed. …”
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Exploring Dysphagia in Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia: A Retrospective Analysis by Jamie Gilley, Elise Whalen, Audrey Latimore, Viviane Jung, Joseph Hagan, Alice King

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Defining conditions for effective interdisciplinary care team communication in an open surgical intensive care unit: a qualitative study by Andrew Berry, Julie Johnson, Abahuje Egide, Michael Shapiro, Carmen M Diaz, Miriam Rafferty, Ali Amro, Kaithlyn Tesorero, Bona Ko, Whitney Jones, John D Slocum, Anne Madeleine Stey

“…Participants included intensivist, transplant, colorectal, vascular, surgical oncology, trauma faculty surgeons (n=10); emergency medicine, surgery, gynaecology, radiology physicians-in-training (n=6), advanced practice providers (n=5), nurses (n=7), fellows (n=1) and subspecialist clinicians such as respiratory therapists, pharmacists and dieticians (n=4). …”
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User Requirements and Conceptual Design for an Electronic Data Platform for Interhospital Transfer Between Acute Care Hospitals: User-Centered Design Study by Pamela Garabedian, Jazzarae Kain, Srinivas Emani, Stephanie Singleton, Ronen Rozenblum, Lipika Samal, Stephanie Mueller

“…A total of 8 UCD sessions were held between February and July 2023, involving 18 clinicians who interact with the EHR during IHT, including 3 medicine residents, 10 advanced practice providers (APPs), and 5 direct care attendings—all responsible for caring for IHT patients at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Cardiology, Medicine, Oncology, and intensive care unit services. …”
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Stressors contributing to burnout among acute care and trauma surgery care teams: a systems-analysis approach by Karthik Adapa, Lukasz Mazur, Elizabeth Kwong, Thomas Ivester, Caprice Greenberg, Viola Goodacre, Lisa Vizer, Jin Ra, Nadia Charguia, Lawrence B Marks

“…Non-faculty (advanced practice providers (APPs), nurses, staff) classified the following for improvement: (i) align APP job responsibilities, (ii) improve lack of recognition from leadership, and (iii) robust and consistent APP training.Conclusions A contextual design approach to studying burnout using surveys, focus groups, CIs, modeling, and validation and prioritization is a feasible method for identifying key stressors and improvements that may enable more impactful and appropriately targeted interventions. …”
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Addressing cancer-related fatigue through sleep: A secondary analysis of a randomized trial comparing acupuncture and cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia by Xiaotong Li, Kevin T. Liou, Susan Chimonas, Karolina Bryl, Greta Wong, Eugenie Spiguel, Susan Q. Li, Sheila N. Garland, Ting Bao, Jun J. Mao

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